Minimum 4 pages written

The CEO calls around lunch time on a Friday wanting some more information about sustainability. She would like an overview on how a sustainability program will affect stakeholders and the environment. With a Board meeting right around the corner to make a final decision on the expansion, the CEO wants to tie up the last few ends and be able to give a hard sell to the Board. The CEO has come up with a list of the following countries as possible target locations of a new plant to build widgets. Your task is to choose only one country as she will assign the other countries to department heads.

India
Brazil
Columbia
Zimbabwe
Chad

Once you have chosen your country, please answer the following questions based on your country of choice:

• Determine the effect that building a new plant in the chosen country will have on sustainability on internal and external stakeholders.
• Discuss the effects that the production of widgets will have on the local environment and natural resources of the chosen country.
• Don’t forget to discuss the economic considerations of going “Green” and the cost risk benefits of doing so.

Your paper should be a minimum of 4 pages, using proper APA formatting and including at least 3 credible sources cited in your paper through in-text citations. Include an APA-formatted title page and reference page. Your paper should also be free of grammatical errors.

Suggested library databases to research these topics include Business Source Complete via EBSCO and Business via ProQuest for articles, and Safari Business eBooks and eBooks via EBSCO for eBooks.

*A note about credible sources: Credible sources are reliable, accurate, and trustworthy. These sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study. You want to identify sources where the author of the article is listed, if they’ve referenced other information, the sources should be cited so that you can check for the accuracy of and support what they have written. Wikipedia is not considered a credible source.

Develop and record a 10–12-slide, executive-level presentation, with speaker notes, of the SMART objectives corresponding to the organization’s main strategies, associated performance indicators and metrics, and strategic plan recommendations.

Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

The successful implementation of a strategic plan requires effective communication and a thorough understanding of not only the role of the organization within the greater community, but the role of leadership within the organization. By effectively engaging stakeholders and understanding the philosophy of strategic management, leaders can mitigate challenges and hurdles that face those directing change.

This assessment provides an opportunity for you to create an executive-level presentation explaining how SMART objectives underlying each organizational strategy can help the organization successfully implement its strategic plan. Then, after sharing the key performance indicators you developed off the strategic plan, you will use this ‘balanced scorecard’ to make recommendations to revise the strategies you developed in Assessment 3.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze organizational structure, design, culture, and climate in relation to environmental forces.
• Competency 2: Develop a strategic organizational plan that provides human and financial resources to support targeted organizational outcomes.
• Competency 3: Recommend an organizational structure and design to optimize a strategic plan.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for professionals in health care administration.

• Analyze potential long-term opportunities and operational components in the strategic planning process.

• Present operational recommendations and strategic control mechanisms.
• Define critical success indicators that enable an organization to measure success in implementing a strategy.
• Analyze the effect of strategy formulation on human, financial, and technical resources.

• Propose a strategic plan to optimize outcomes and mitigate risks in an organization.

• Create a visually pleasing, professional presentation tailored to a specific audience.
• Communicate critical content clearly and persuasively in a limited time.

Guide:

Consult IDEA’s “9 Principles of Good Debating.” Within the discussion, refute 2 debate arguments of the other side. Refutations often research outside the scope of assigned prep material to furnish evidence.

about 300 words

you can read the articles, also cause the references out of the articles to debate “arguments of the other side”

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Arguments of the other side:

Author: Alexa Balint

From the readings it is clear to me that social movements can be, and have been, extremely successful without a leader. These leaderless campaigns have been responsible for many successes such as legalizing gay marriage, and gaining rights for immigrants. In addition, the Yellow Vests protests in France, the 2011 London riots and the Arab Spring were all successful leaderless movements where social media played a central role in drawing in people from far and wide and organizing mass unrest.

It may seem logical to think that social movements with a strong leader, such as Martin Luther King, would be even more powerful and successful than leaderless ones. After all, movements with strong leaders are the ones that pop up in our minds when we think of social movements. However, many more battles have been won through the coming together of millions worldwide using the power of social media. For example, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the United for Global Change, which mobilized hundreds of thousands in 82 countries claiming social justice (Castells 2012).

The first reason why leaderless movements work is the speed at which information can travel through social media. Ideas can spread amazingly quickly around the globe with the use of viral videos and messages. These ideas can quickly become a movement that is resilient and adaptable, “decentralized but deeply linked” (McKibben 2017). Teixeira calls this kind of movement “digital activism”. In contrast to this are the more time-consuming and limited traditional social movements that rely on meetings and a hierarchy of decision-making. Information sharing in the traditional way is also more time-consuming. Leaderless movements that use social media are able share up to the minute information in order to influence people’s worldviews and recruit them to the movement, thereby growing its numbers much more quickly and efficiently.

The second reason leaderless movements work is that they are often overlooked by authorities until it is too late. The threat of action is not seen because it is spread through social media, as in the case of the Yellow Vests protests, which were triggered by a proposed increase in the tax on fuel. As word spread like wildfire, and protests were coordinated from remote corners of France, the police were unable to anticipate and deter them.

The third reason leaderless movements work is because the reason for the movement is far more important than a figurehead. The shared concern of real people fighting for what they believe in has a stronger hold than a leader who dictates his own beliefs. The power is in the hands of everyone who is part of the movement, “a well-distributed power system” (McKibben 2017). In addition, if there is no one in a leadership position, then the state or corporate giants have no one to counter-attack.

My topic for this assignment is the top three major safety and health issues. This assignment is to be done with APA Format. 

Assignment Instructions

The APUS Library, in its Writing@APUS section, explores the traits of research questions (even though this is in the section for graduate students, it applies to the work you are doing in this course).   The site looks at what a research question is and what it is not. It looks at strong and weak research questions and compares research questions and thesis statements.  Take a few moments to review this information:  Writing the Research Question. 

Then, following the model below (including bold headings), compose and submit a set of 5 research questions for a topic in your field of study or major that really intrigues you. These research questions will guide you as you begin your research process.   You will likely find that one research question stands out and that, ultimately, your thesis statement may provide answer(s) to that research question.  

Remember that your final 2,000 word paper must include a minimum of 7 sources with at least 4 sources coming from peer-reviewed journals from the APUS library.

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Research Question Checklist:

Look at each question to see if it meets most of the criteria shown here.  If it does not, please replace or revise it.  Then write your revised questions below.

• Does the question deal with something that really interests me?
• Is it a topic I can research at the APUS Library?
• Is the span of information I want to cover reasonable?
• Is the question too broad, too narrow, or just right?
• Is the question an open-ended question that invites inquiry?  

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Supporting Materials

• Sample Research Questions.docx (15 KB)
• Rubric for Research Questions.pdf (119 KB)